Despite looking at similar posts on this site and google, I just can't wrap my head around how to post to a php page from the iPhone. Here is what I want to do:
I have a php script, say at www.mypage.com/myscript.php that I could post to normally by doing www.mypage.com/myscript.php?mynumber=99&myname=codezy
This in turn will add a log message in database for example. I do not want any data back, it is essentially a one way transaction. NSMutableURLRequest seems to be what I am looking for but I just cant get a handle on how to make this work with a couple parameters.
If you're sending a single URL request without needing to send multiple variations, NSURLRequest will do. Even though you are using multiple parameters, they are all part of the same URL, so you just treat them that way. Build the URL as a string first and then use the string to initialize a NSURL object.
You are prompting a log message on the server, but you will want to have response data in case something goes wrong. You can just ignore the response data unless there's an error. The request is sent using a NSURLConnection object.
NSURL *urlToSend = [[NSURL alloc] initWithString: #"www.mypage.com/myscript.php?mynumber=99&myname=codezy"];
NSURLRequest *urlRequest = [NSURLRequest requestWithURL:urlToSend
cachePolicy:NSURLRequestReturnCacheDataElseLoad
cachetimeoutInterval:30];
NSData *urlData;
NSURLResponse *response;
NSError *error;
urlData = [NSURLConnection sendSynchronousRequest:urlRequest
returningResponse:&response
error:&error];
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I'm trying to implement Like via the facebook open-graph-api with the Facebook iOS SDK 3.0.
Everything seems to work except the FbGraphObject and that's because I have no idea how it should look because this clearly does not work.
What I'm trying to do is to like a url posted as an object. A simple Like with via the open-graph.
The error message I get the the code below is:
The action you're trying to publish is invalid because it does not specify any
reference objects. At least one of the following properties must be specified: object.
The code I use is this:
FBGraphObject *objectToLike = [[FBGraphObject alloc]initWithContentsOfURL:[NSURL URLWithString:facebookLike.titleLabel.text]];
FBRequest *requestLike = [[FBRequest alloc]initForPostWithSession:[FBSession activeSession] graphPath:#"me/og.likes" graphObject:objectToLike];
FBRequestConnection *connection = [[FBRequestConnection alloc] init];
[connection addRequest:requestLike
completionHandler:
^(FBRequestConnection *connection, id result, NSError *error) {
if (!error &&
result) {
DLog(#"NothingWentWrong");
}
DLog(#"MajorError: %#", error);
}
];
[connection start];
UPDATE:
Checked some more info and my guess it to use this method:
https://developers.facebook.com/docs/sdk-reference/iossdk/3.0/class/FBGraphObject/#//api/name/graphObject
To somehow create an object. It's the graphObject method that I probably need to do something with. Any help at all would be appreciated.
I've actually manage to create a simple and quite dirty solution of this.
The solution does not seem optimal but it's currently a working solution.
If anybody has used the explorer tool on facebook on this url:
https://developers.facebook.com/tools/explorer/
You know how the URL will look like when facebook is sharing a like. It has to have the URL and an access-token.
So my solution became just to disregard sending anything from the Facebook SDK and just send a post request to the same URL that I've used in the explorer tool.
There seems to be some referencing to it on the facebooks docs if you look closely and deep, but no one explains exactly how to actually make the connection, so this is my solution:
NSString *urlToLikeFor = facebookLike.titleLabel.text;
NSString *theWholeUrl = [NSString stringWithFormat:#"https://graph.facebook.com/me/og.likes?object=%#&access_token=%#", urlToLikeFor, FBSession.activeSession.accessToken];
NSLog(#"TheWholeUrl: %#", theWholeUrl);
NSURL *facebookUrl = [NSURL URLWithString:theWholeUrl];
NSMutableURLRequest *req = [NSMutableURLRequest requestWithURL:facebookUrl];
[req setHTTPMethod:#"POST"];
NSURLResponse *response;
NSError *err;
NSData *responseData = [NSURLConnection sendSynchronousRequest:req returningResponse:&response error:&err];
NSString *content = [NSString stringWithUTF8String:[responseData bytes]];
NSLog(#"responseData: %#", content);
If you look at the code I just take the url and puts two dynamic strings in the url, one with the object-url and one with the access token. I create a URLRequest and make it a POST request, and the response from facebook gets logged so one actually can see if the like go through or not.
There might be some performance improvements that can be done with the actual requests but I will leave it up to you if you see any slowdowns.
I'm still interested in other solutions but this is the one I will use for now.
We don't currently support Like through our Graph API.
What you can look through is something like this :
https://developers.facebook.com/docs/opengraph/actions/builtin/likes/
I’m not sure what initWithContentsOfURL does, but from the name I guess it tries to actually load content from a given URL(?).
You only have to give the URL as a text parameter – a URL is what represents an Open Graph object. Facebook will do the rest, scraping the page behind that URL and reading it’s OG meta tags, etc.
Maybe just this?
FBRequest *requestLike = [[FBRequest alloc]initForPostWithSession:[FBSession activeSession]
graphPath:#"me/og.likes"
graphObject:[NSURL URLWithString:facebookLike.titleLabel.text]];
I'm working on making a client for my REST service on the iPhone. I'm a little lost as to how I go about making the GET and POST requests. I make the url from a NSString, convert it to an NSURL and create the NSURLRequest based off of the url. After that I'm pretty lost. Also, sometimes I care about the response, other times I don't. For example, when making a request for a new id, I care about the response because it's the id I'll use to upload my file later, but when I upload the file I don't care because the server doesn't send a response.
Does anyone have some (hopefully)simple sample code that they could point me to / share?
What I have so far:
-(NSString *) makeGetRequest:(NSString *)url :(Boolean)careAboutResult
{
NSString *results = nil;
NSURLRequest *request = [NSURLRequest requestWithURL:[NSURL URLWithString:url]];
NSError *reqError;
NSURLResponse *response = nil;
if(careAboutResult == YES)
{
//get the result
}
return results;
}
In the code I'm testing with, the URL is
http://192.168.0.108:8081/TestUploadService/RestfulUpload.svc/id/test123_DOT_png
and I'm saying I do care about the result.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
#nick its good you have created a NSURLRequest now you just need to create a connection to send this request and receive response, this request is GET request.
To make POST request you will need to use NSMutableURLRequest and set its method name and body content. Here in documentation you will find how you can do this.
When do I actually get my response code 200 for a valid request for an image? Is it after all of the data has been downloaded to my browser or which ever device is requesting the image?
I am using the library http://allseeing-i.com/ASIHTTPRequest/ to download images in my iPad app and using the download directly to a file option and then deleting the file if it was a 404 error or any other status code than 200.
ASIHTTPRequest *request = [ASIHTTPRequest requestWithURL:url];
[request setDownloadDestinationPath:#"/Users/ben/Desktop/my_file.jpg"];
Problem is partial responses seem to be getting saved during slow connections so I end up with blank or corrupt images.
I decided instead to save the data stream to disk only after I received a status code of 200:
NSURL *url = [NSURL URLWithString: [[NSString stringWithFormat:kProductImagesURL, fileName] stringByAppendingString:tStamp]];
ASIHTTPRequest *request = [ASIHTTPRequest requestWithURL:url];
[request setTimeOutSeconds:10];
[request startSynchronous];
int statusCode = [request responseStatusCode];
if (statusCode==200) {
NSData *responseData = [request responseData];
[responseData writeToFile:[savePath stringByReplacingOccurrencesOfString:#"%20" withString:#" "] atomically:YES];
}
I just want to make sure that the response code only comes back after the request has been completed and all of the data has been downloaded. I am 99% sure that is the case but can't afford another app release with an image bug like this in it.
There are two reasons you should probably consider switching to an asynchronous request. The first is, it frees up your main thread to interact with the user (even a modal spinner would be nice--otherwise it looks like your app has frozen).
Second, it gives you callbacks that only happen once the whole request is finished. I can't really explain only having gotten partial data with the code you showed, but I've never once had that problem using ASI's asynchronous methods.
I'm wondering how to test a synchronous request to assert the behavior of an API client depending on the server response.
As it's a good practice to be independent of the server (so the test run fast and don't rely on the internet connection), I'd like to return my own response. I don't know how to do this, since the request is synchronous :
NSURL *url = [self URL];
NSData *postData = [self postData];
NSMutableURLRequest *downloadRequest = [NSMutableURLRequest requestWithURL:url];
[downloadRequest setHTTPMethod:#"POST"];
[downloadRequest setHTTPBody:postData];
[downloadRequest setTimeoutInterval:10.0];
return downloadRequest;
NSURLResponse *response;
NSError *error = nil;
NSData *urlData = [NSURLConnection sendSynchronousRequest:downloadRequest
returningResponse:&response
error:&error];
Do you have any suggestion on how to do this ?
I don't know if it's possible to override NSURLConnection for example, or if I should change my code, just for testing purposes.
I don't completely understand the first sentence of the question. I can say that you almost certainly want to make it asynchronous. A synchronous request will block the UI and if it takes too long iOS will force-quit your app. Your asynchronous request callbacks can then review the success/failure and then either call a delegate with the same response or a modified one, or post a notification that you've previously installed handlers for, again swapping the response or not as you wish.
I have just read different stuff about NSXMLParser, NSURLConnection, WebKit and more, but I don't know how to do this: I have a URL to a website and I would like to get the source of this website to read and later store relevant information.
Some guidance to the right direction would be appreciated, Fabian
To get your HTML, all you have to do is use a NSURLRequest to make a request to your website, then use the NSURLConnection to issue the request, this will return with some data that is the html source, from there you can do what you wish. I am going to post an example of how to make a request synchronously, just be aware that you probably want to do this async...Also here is a ref to NSURLRequest
NSURL *yourURL = [NSURL URLWithString: urlstring ];
NSURLRequest *request=[[NSURLRequest alloc] initWithURL:yourUrl];
NSData* data=[NSURLConnection sendSynchronousRequest:request returningResponse:nil error:nil];
//now you can use the data and the websites encoding to get a string